Martina Leeker, Imanuel Schipper, Timon Beyes (eds.) Performing the Digital 2017-02-20 13-43-08 - Projekt: transcript.titeleien / Dokument: FAX ID 026e453961224774|(S 1- 4) TIT3355_cc.p 453961224782 2017-02-20 13-43-08 - Projekt: transcript.titeleien / Dokument: FAX ID 026e453961224774|(S 1- 4) TIT3355_cc.p 453961224782 Martina Leeker, Imanuel Schipper, Timon Beyes (eds.) Performing the Digital Performativity and Performance Studies in Digital Cultures 2017-02-20 13-43-08 - Projekt: transcript.titeleien / Dokument: FAX ID 026e453961224774|(S 1- 4) TIT3355_cc.p 453961224782 Supported by the Niedersächsisches Vorab Program An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access for the public good The Open Access ISBN for this book is 978-3-8394-3355-3 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 (BY-NC-ND) which means that the text may be used for non-commercial purposes, provided credit is given to the author For details go to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de All rights reserved No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher © 2017 transcript Verlag, Bielefeld Cover layout: Kordula Röckenhaus, Bielefeld Cover illustration: Jörg Baumann, 2013, Situation Rooms, Rimini Protokoll & Ruhrtriennale Proofread by Hana Yoosuf, Janet Leyton-Grant, Anna Königshofer Typeset by Julia Choutka, Sophie Köster, Inga Luchs, Vincent Rieger Image editing: Tobias Schulze Printed in Germany Print-ISBN 978-3-8376-3355-9 PDF-ISBN 978-3-8394-3355-3 2017-02-20 13-43-08 - Projekt: transcript.titeleien / Dokument: FAX ID 026e453961224774|(S 1- 4) TIT3355_cc.p 453961224782 Contents I NTRODUCING Performativity, performance studies and digital cultures Martina Leeker, Imanuel Schipper and Timon Beyes | HISTORICIZING Performing (the) digital Positions of critique in digital cultures Martina Leeker | 21 ANNOTATING Making digital choreographic objects interrelate: A focus on coding practices Scott deLahunta and Florian Jenett | 63 AFFECTING Speculation about 1:0 On the productive difference of the interval Marie-Luise Angerer | 83 TRADING The noisy motions of instruments: The performative space of digital finance Ann-Christina Lange | 101 E NCRYPTING Performing encryption Susan Kozel | 117 P ROTESTING Mobile phone signals and protest crowds: Performing an unstable post-media constellation Oliver Leistert | 137 MAPPING Mapping invisibility: Surveillance art and the potential of performative cartography Sigrid Merx | 157 TAGGING The big urban game, re-play and full city tags: Art game conceptions in activism and performance Margarete Jahrmann | 171 CO-PRODUCING From flâneur to co-creator: The performative spectator Imanuel Schipper | 191 I NSTITUTING Performing institutions: A catalogue of performative practices Melanie Mohren and Bernhard Herbordt | 213 O RGANIZING ‘The machine could swallow everything.’ Satin Island and performing organization Timon Beyes | 229 CRASHING Performing the economy, digital media and crisis A critique of Michel Callon Jens Schröter | 247 DEMOCRATIZING Performance and democratizing digitality: StudioLab as critical design pedagogy Jon McKenzie | 279 Notes on contributors | 297 Introducing Performativity, performance studies and digital cultures M ARTINA L EEKER , I MANUEL S CHIPPER AND T IMON B EYES Performing the Digital seeks to map and reflect registers of performance and techno-social layers of performativity in today’s digital cultures The book’s basic proposition is that the ubiquity and pervasiveness of digital media and their networked infrastructures profoundly influence the ways and styles in which performativity appears and is enacted Contemporary technological apparatuses and media provoke new forms of ‘intra-action’ between what is usually considered to be either human or machinic agency, to use Barad’s terminology of posthumanist performativity (Barad 2003) In this sense, digital cultures are performative cultures They condition and are shaped by techno-social processes and agencies, and they afford new possibilities for performative practices and interventions It follows that the study of performativity in its heterogeneous dimensions cannot afford to ignore the agential forces and effects of digital technologies and their entanglements with human bodies Accordingly, investigations of social, economic and political processes conducted in and across other disciplines have to reckon with the performativity of digital devices and algorithmic organizing The book’s genesis and development – and, we hope, the discussions it will instigate – were therefore informed by two guiding questions: How is performativity shaped by contemporary technological conditions? And how performative practices reflect and alter techno-social formations? In proposing answers to these questions, Performing the Digital offers a double contribution First, we see the book as part of the wider ‘performative turn’ in the cultural and social sciences (Bachmann-Medick 2016; Thrift 2008), contributing to an understanding of how techno-social performativity – or perhaps a regime of digital performativity – effects the world we live in More specifically, this collection seeks to map and thus make visible the relations between ... according to the ‘doings’ that are in the focus of the respective chapters, the book’s map of themes, concerns and concepts of ? ?performing the digital? ?? as well as the interrelations between them presents... given to the author For details go to http://creativecommons.org/licenses /by- nc-nd/3.0/ Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists... On the productive difference of the interval Marie-Luise Angerer | 83 TRADING The noisy motions of instruments: The performative space of digital finance Ann-Christina Lange | 101 E NCRYPTING Performing